In the 2017 Goa Assembly elections, more than 10 Congress MLAs were elected, but after a few years they defected to the BJP
In the 2022 Goa Assembly elections, again more than 10 Congress MLAs were elected, but after eight months, eight MLAs again defected to the BJP
Now there are only 3 MLAs in the Congress in Goa,
According to media reports, the MLAs did not defect because the priest of the church in goa told the MLAs not to defect, their political career would be finished if they defected
Goa has a sizeable Roman Catholic population, and the Congress is popular among Christians